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| Wednesday, 07 September 2011 12:14 |
Pedro Caixinha given the boot by LeiriaCoach loses job after poor start to the season Uniao da Leiria have sacked coach Pedro Caixinha. A return of zero points from the first three matches of the new season persuaded the Leiria board to take drastic action.
Playing at their temporary home of Marinha Grande, Leiria fell to a heavy 5-2 defeat against champions FC Porto yesterday, on the back of narrow defeats against Academica and Pacos de Ferreira in their opening two fixtures of 2011/12.
An official statement from the club this morning announced Leiria “had arrived at an agreement for an amicable rescission of the contract with Pedro Caixinha, and would like to thank him for all his endeavour, dedication and professionalism as head coach. This outcome is wholly due to a question of bad luck, and both parties believe it is the best solution.”
Leiria added that Caixinha’s assistants would stay at the club and would take over team affairs for the time being.
Just three games into the new domestic season, three top-flight clubs have already changed their man in the dugout. Manuel Machado resigned at Vitoria Guimaraes, and was replaced by Rui Vitoria, whose previous job at Pacos de Ferreira is now in the hands of Luis Miguel.
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I don't know if anyone else has seen or followed what has been going on with the "players strike" in Spain. Basically, players want a "Universal Fund" maintained by the FA to cover the players wages. There's a ton of players that haven't been paid.
Amazingly, there have been Presidents/Owners that have come out and said that the "rich" players of the league should maintain that fund. LOL!!!
The Getafe president further said that players shouldn't expect to get paid the outrageous salaries they have been offered by the teams. He said that the players should know that the team wouldn't be able to fullfill the contract. LOL!!!
Let me get this straight. A team offers the contract/money, but they know they can't pay it. The player should also expect not to get paid. Really? We all know the disparity between Barca/Real and the rest, but a contract is a contract, no? They shouldn't be offering what they can't pay, right?
You can tell that Spain is really hurting just by the amount of teams that don't have a jersey sponsor.
As for the ultimate corruption, it's actually the MLS. Every player is contracted with the league and not the team. Hence the league can accept or deny trades and influence squad make up. Especially the foreign transfers. Amazingly, they have still managed to screw it up. Although trying in the worst way, they still haven't been able to get the Galaxy to win it all. LOL!
As for the coach getting fired I agree with you that it's harsh getting fired after 3 games, especially since 1 loss was to a big 3 (almost expected) and the other 2 losses were not that bad.
The fans are always the ones that pay the price.
Guimaraes has actually made money in the transfer market, stealing money from Man United, yet have done nothing in the way of progress.
Braga made a ton of money in European play last season, more than Benfica in total winnings, yet chose to dial it down.
Somebody is pocketing plenty of money.
As for Sporting, you are correct in regards to the outrage over the alleged or not so alleged "corrupt" elections. It was all quickly forgotten due to the signing of Paciencia and new players.
As for the players that have been brought in, some, if not all of that has to go on Paciencia. He wouldn't have moved to Sporting if he didn't have the freedom in the transfer market.
I still think that Sporting is on the road to recovery and will improve as the season progresses. Keep in mind that all players are learning a new system. Paciencia is going to have to have them to buy in quickly.
I also found it funny how some people killed Djalo and Postiga while here, yet went nuts when they were sent off.
I get the confusion, but maybe Paciencia was just trying to showcase them in order to get max value. Granted that wasn't much.
I feel for their fans as they did have some good candidates to run the club but in Portugal the crooks seem to get away with murder.
I think that most can agree that inconsistancy on the field, is one of the main problems with mid and lower table teams.
If that same inconsistancy continues to happen at the top of the organization, how can the squad change.
Has anyone in the Portuguese press asked why is it that so many managers get turned over, when presidents stay on after making the supposedly bad managerial changes, time after time, after time...?